Just last week a co-worker used their website tool to figure out his monthly payment. Pretty standard stuff that most car websites provide. What Tesla didn't do was make it obvious that they were subtracting the estimated fuel cost from the amount. It was dishonest.
Which is the entire point of autotune. Fix the rare slip. Unfortunately, far too many talentless hacks pushed by record executives because they have "the right look" can only perform with autotune turned up to eleven.
Nope. I can't eat the $1 crap from McDonald's. It makes me nauseous. I prefer spending about five bucks at Five Guys or In-N-Out. The $15 premium burger is damn good, but that means a trip into The City (San Francisco), and if I'm going through that much trouble for dinner I would rather eat at my favorite French bistro.
Idiots who shop at Whole Foods would rather a child go blind due to vitamin deficiency rather than allow an evil GMO food to be used. Their suggestion of "they should eat more vegetables" ignores the simple fact that they need the special rice because they don't have access to the fucking vegetables.
Tons of food have been destroyed in Africa because of this ignorance. It's better that people starve rather than risk ingesting a GMO food. What. The. Fuck?
The average teacher salary in the Los Angeles Unified School District is $63,000, plus excellent benefits and job security that makes it near impossible to get fired. And they don't work the entire year.
Even better: We're replacing our antiquated hardware, making software updates we've been putting off for months, and upgrading our RDBMS.
Updating software on a bunch of servers is a pain in the ass, even with something like puppet. Dealing with the fallout of a breach because you didn't update your software in a timely manner is an even bigger pain in the ass and has the potential side effect of unemployment.
What pushed them over the edge, and what is almost always the cause of civil war, is hunger. Food was getting scarce. Egypt has always had to import food to get enough calories to feed the populace. The money to pay for this was primarily from tourism. The Morsi policies and the Muslim Brotherhood had effectively destroyed the tourist industry.
People will put up with a lot of shit. But if they see their babies crying because of hunger, they get angry.
It starts before a child is even in school, they prepare them for the tests to get in the best preschool, and it continues every day of their lives so that eventually their child will be accepted to the only university that matters, Tokyo University. At any point along the way failure is possible, but because of constant family pressure, it is not an option. There are only so many slots available each year, so it's guaranteed that the majority who apply to the university will be rejected. Those people are failures. They were told every moment of their lives that they MUST make it into Tokyo University or they are a failure. So where else do you go when you have failed yourself and your family?
This is a summary of an article I read over 10 years ago about this problem. It is not something new.
You can argue all you want that it's not a viable business model to not disable cell phones, but large parts of Europe already have a cell phone "kill switch" and it has virtually eliminated cell phone thefts.
Yep. The new system is pretty damn good. The app is great. Here's a basic step through.
1. Press "taxi" icon 2. Press "Send cab" 3. Press "Now" (or enter a time) 4. It asks "at your currently location?" (uses your phones gps) 5. Press "Yes" 6. I think it asks for destination, but I don't remember the details. 7. Responds with "Cab in route. Approximate arrival time is 4 minutes 33 seconds" 8. A few minutes later your phone buzzes and a message shows, "Your cab has arrived".
It doesn't get any simpler than that. The taxi drivers love it (for the reasons you stated). The riders love it because it's faster and easier than the old phone system. The dispatchers hate it because they can no longer skim the drivers' fares. In NYC, I'm sure the cab companies skim from the dispatchers. The thing is, the cab companies probably see increased profits, except it will all be "on the books". The entire taxi infrastructure of NYC is rotten to the core (pun intended). A side note. The cab companies in NYC have hired lobbyists to get Washington, DC to implement a NYC medallion system. The tax drivers are fighting that tooth and nail.
My roommate could have gotten in on the ground floor of the company that makes this system, but he turned it down (he's still kicking himself over that).
It was attempted. A system that automates the routing of taxicabs via voice calls and cell phone apps is available and works extremely well. The companies that control the taxi business in NYC made sure it couldn't get a foothold. One of the reasons it is disliked by the entrenched powers is it eliminates the dispatcher. Now you'd think that is a good thing since it reduces overhead while increasing efficiency. Except it also eliminates the bribes the taxi drivers need to pay to the dispatchers if they ever want to get work.
As much as I dislike Bloomberg, I hope he is successful in destroying the current taxi business status quo.
I have to do the same damn thing every three months on one system and every six months on two. This doesn't count my system admin passwords (which we mostly eliminated through the use of private keys). One system I use so rarely that I have to have it reset when I want to use it (it's the vacation database, which does not use the same password as anything else in the company).
The cell phone companies have the ability to disable service for any phone permanently. They already do this in most of Europe and has almost eliminated cell phone thefts. The American companies resist doing this common sense action because they can still make money from stolen phones.
The constition also makes it crystal clear that the power of the Federal government is EXTREMELY limited, yet that hasn't stopped them.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
There is plenty of evidence (video) of people in Watertown refusing permission and the police basically telling them, "fuck you, because we can". They did not bother to get a warrant. Yes, people are often too quick to waive their rights. At the same time, the police are too quick to ignore them.
Your memory is faulty. OtherOS was never advertised. It was mentioned (accidently) at a game developers conference in an offhand remark, but it was NEVER EVER NOT ONCE advertised as a feature, especially not as part of the "Does Everything" campaign". I challenge you to find an ad that mentions OtherOS. Since the internet is forever, you should have no problem finding something that might back up your argument. No photoshops, though.
My ex was a translator and she was constantly complaining about the steady decrease in work because of machine translations being used. The machine results were crap, but they were free, so the businesses didn't care.
Once we're on the right-hand side of the Laffer curve, you'll have room to talk. Until then, you're just being (knowingly?) disingenuous.
Every serious study puts us to the left -- often, far to the left -- of the peak.
Is it necessary for the government to get the maximum possible amount of revenue from taxes? I say no. The amount they should be collecting is no more than the amount necessary to run lawful government business. Note the important word "lawful". Our Federal government is doing a whole lot of shit they aren't supposed to be doing.
I guess they haven't changed. Many years ago I worked for a small game company that had a contract with EA to create a game. Near the end of the project I was working out of one of their offices. I was frowned upon for only putting in 12 hours a day and refusing to work on Sundays. I told them flat out, my brain starts shutting down after too many hours and I need one fucking day a week for myself. I will never ever deal with EA again.
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Just last week a co-worker used their website tool to figure out his monthly payment. Pretty standard stuff that most car websites provide. What Tesla didn't do was make it obvious that they were subtracting the estimated fuel cost from the amount. It was dishonest.
ZOMG! All those conspiracy theorists were right. Fluoride in our drinking water was a communist plot to destroy the fabric of our nation!
Which is the entire point of autotune. Fix the rare slip. Unfortunately, far too many talentless hacks pushed by record executives because they have "the right look" can only perform with autotune turned up to eleven.
Nope. I can't eat the $1 crap from McDonald's. It makes me nauseous. I prefer spending about five bucks at Five Guys or In-N-Out. The $15 premium burger is damn good, but that means a trip into The City (San Francisco), and if I'm going through that much trouble for dinner I would rather eat at my favorite French bistro.
The cloth kind is called gaffer's tape.
Idiots who shop at Whole Foods would rather a child go blind due to vitamin deficiency rather than allow an evil GMO food to be used. Their suggestion of "they should eat more vegetables" ignores the simple fact that they need the special rice because they don't have access to the fucking vegetables.
Tons of food have been destroyed in Africa because of this ignorance. It's better that people starve rather than risk ingesting a GMO food. What. The. Fuck?
There isn't enough time in a day to use all the tools available to me. I pick the tools that will be the most useful to my requirements.
Ah, that would explain why they Hungarian stamps in my passport were always on some random page.
Nope. They can ask, but they have no legal authority without a warrant. People ARE challenging their inspection stops and refusing to cooperate.
The average teacher salary in the Los Angeles Unified School District is $63,000, plus excellent benefits and job security that makes it near impossible to get fired. And they don't work the entire year.
Even better: We're replacing our antiquated hardware, making software updates we've been putting off for months, and upgrading our RDBMS.
Updating software on a bunch of servers is a pain in the ass, even with something like puppet. Dealing with the fallout of a breach because you didn't update your software in a timely manner is an even bigger pain in the ass and has the potential side effect of unemployment.
What pushed them over the edge, and what is almost always the cause of civil war, is hunger. Food was getting scarce. Egypt has always had to import food to get enough calories to feed the populace. The money to pay for this was primarily from tourism. The Morsi policies and the Muslim Brotherhood had effectively destroyed the tourist industry.
People will put up with a lot of shit. But if they see their babies crying because of hunger, they get angry.
It starts before a child is even in school, they prepare them for the tests to get in the best preschool, and it continues every day of their lives so that eventually their child will be accepted to the only university that matters, Tokyo University. At any point along the way failure is possible, but because of constant family pressure, it is not an option. There are only so many slots available each year, so it's guaranteed that the majority who apply to the university will be rejected. Those people are failures. They were told every moment of their lives that they MUST make it into Tokyo University or they are a failure. So where else do you go when you have failed yourself and your family?
This is a summary of an article I read over 10 years ago about this problem. It is not something new.
You can argue all you want that it's not a viable business model to not disable cell phones, but large parts of Europe already have a cell phone "kill switch" and it has virtually eliminated cell phone thefts.
Yep. The new system is pretty damn good. The app is great. Here's a basic step through.
1. Press "taxi" icon
2. Press "Send cab"
3. Press "Now" (or enter a time)
4. It asks "at your currently location?" (uses your phones gps)
5. Press "Yes"
6. I think it asks for destination, but I don't remember the details.
7. Responds with "Cab in route. Approximate arrival time is 4 minutes 33 seconds"
8. A few minutes later your phone buzzes and a message shows, "Your cab has arrived".
It doesn't get any simpler than that. The taxi drivers love it (for the reasons you stated). The riders love it because it's faster and easier than the old phone system. The dispatchers hate it because they can no longer skim the drivers' fares. In NYC, I'm sure the cab companies skim from the dispatchers. The thing is, the cab companies probably see increased profits, except it will all be "on the books". The entire taxi infrastructure of NYC is rotten to the core (pun intended). A side note. The cab companies in NYC have hired lobbyists to get Washington, DC to implement a NYC medallion system. The tax drivers are fighting that tooth and nail.
My roommate could have gotten in on the ground floor of the company that makes this system, but he turned it down (he's still kicking himself over that).
It was attempted. A system that automates the routing of taxicabs via voice calls and cell phone apps is available and works extremely well. The companies that control the taxi business in NYC made sure it couldn't get a foothold. One of the reasons it is disliked by the entrenched powers is it eliminates the dispatcher. Now you'd think that is a good thing since it reduces overhead while increasing efficiency. Except it also eliminates the bribes the taxi drivers need to pay to the dispatchers if they ever want to get work.
As much as I dislike Bloomberg, I hope he is successful in destroying the current taxi business status quo.
I have to do the same damn thing every three months on one system and every six months on two. This doesn't count my system admin passwords (which we mostly eliminated through the use of private keys). One system I use so rarely that I have to have it reset when I want to use it (it's the vacation database, which does not use the same password as anything else in the company).
The cell phone companies have the ability to disable service for any phone permanently. They already do this in most of Europe and has almost eliminated cell phone thefts. The American companies resist doing this common sense action because they can still make money from stolen phones.
The constition also makes it crystal clear that the power of the Federal government is EXTREMELY limited, yet that hasn't stopped them.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
There is plenty of evidence (video) of people in Watertown refusing permission and the police basically telling them, "fuck you, because we can". They did not bother to get a warrant. Yes, people are often too quick to waive their rights. At the same time, the police are too quick to ignore them.
Your memory is faulty. OtherOS was never advertised. It was mentioned (accidently) at a game developers conference in an offhand remark, but it was NEVER EVER NOT ONCE advertised as a feature, especially not as part of the "Does Everything" campaign". I challenge you to find an ad that mentions OtherOS. Since the internet is forever, you should have no problem finding something that might back up your argument. No photoshops, though.
My ex was a translator and she was constantly complaining about the steady decrease in work because of machine translations being used. The machine results were crap, but they were free, so the businesses didn't care.
Once we're on the right-hand side of the Laffer curve, you'll have room to talk. Until then, you're just being (knowingly?) disingenuous.
Every serious study puts us to the left -- often, far to the left -- of the peak.
Is it necessary for the government to get the maximum possible amount of revenue from taxes? I say no. The amount they should be collecting is no more than the amount necessary to run lawful government business. Note the important word "lawful". Our Federal government is doing a whole lot of shit they aren't supposed to be doing.
I guess they haven't changed. Many years ago I worked for a small game company that had a contract with EA to create a game. Near the end of the project I was working out of one of their offices. I was frowned upon for only putting in 12 hours a day and refusing to work on Sundays. I told them flat out, my brain starts shutting down after too many hours and I need one fucking day a week for myself. I will never ever deal with EA again.
And I'm also guessing the WikiLeaks party will be pro-rape.